September 12
Prof. Nancy Ruttenburg (Comparative Literature)
“Conscience, Rights, and the Delirium of Democracy”
October 3
Paul North (German)
“The Ideal of the Problem: Walter Benjamin’s Art-Critical Theory”
Respondent: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (Comparative Literature)
November 14
Collaboration with the Modern Colloquium
Patrick Gallagher (Comparative Literature) “Insurance: Narrative Discontinuity and the White Flight of Jeffrey Eugenides’s ‘Middlesex’”
and
Brendan Beirne (English): “Regarding David: Self & Spectatorship in ‘Good Old Neon’”
December 5
Student Research
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (Comparative Literature) “Toward a Genealogy of Political Romanticism: Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss as Readers of Edmund Burke”
and
Beata Potocki (Comparative Literature) “Militant Withdrawal: Impersonality in Kateb Yacine’s Fiction”
Respondent: Michiel Bot (Comparative Literature)
January 23
Prof. Kristin Ross (Comparative Literature)
“Democracy for Sale”
February 27
Student Research
Michiel Bot (Comparative Literature) “The Right to Offend”
Respondent: Prof. Joy Connolly (Classics)
March 6
“mock/mini ACLA”
- Katharina Piechocki “Spectacular Ruins: Early Modern Theater and the Desire for the Inaccessible Stanza”
- Sage Anderson “The Right to Laziness/Decadence of ‘Rights’: Lafargue vs. Nietzsche on What to do with Time”
- Monika Konwinska-Connolly “Re-mapping Nationalism: Szczypiorski’s Poçątek and Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines”
- Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra “Su Raro Destino: On the Dictator’s Daughter in José Mármol and Juana Manuela Gorriti”
- Beata Potocki “The Inhuman: Impersonality and the Political in Pierre Guyotat”
- Lori Cole “Rewriting the Vanguard: Guillermo de Torre and the Origins of Ultraísmo.” Seminar: The Manifesto: Mapping the International Avant-Garde
- Patrick Gallagher “A Sector for Publishing: Manufacturing or Services?: The Commodification of the Author and Contemporary Literature.” Seminar: Master of the Universe: Literature, Culture, and Finance Culture
- Andrea Cooper (Hebrew and Judaic Studies) “Language, Medicine and the Silence of the Human/Animal.” with Yael Dekel Seminar: Sounds of Silence: Silence and Speech in Cultural, Political, and Ethical Contexts
Moderator: Michiel Bot
April 3
Student Research
Erica Weitzman (Comparative Literature)
“No Laughing Matter: Irony, Humor, and the Political in 19th-Century Thought”
and
Natalie Nagel (German) “The Spirit of Matter in Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death”
Respondent: Dan Childers (German)
May 1
Collaboration with MARGIN
Prof. Jane Tylus (Italian and Comparative Literature) “Early Modern Translation Theory and Practice”
and
Katharina N. Piechocki (Comparative Literature) “Early Modern Babel: Architecture as Translation (and vice versa) in Leon Battista Alberti, Filarete, and Pellegrino Prisciani”
Respondent: Prof. Tylus
